Displaced Persons (film)

Displaced Persons is a 1985 Australian TV movie about refugees arriving in Australia in 1945.^[1][2]

Displaced Persons
Written by	Louis Nowra
Directed by	Geoffrey Nottage
Starring	John Wood
Country of origin	Australia
Original languages	English Czech Polish Hungarian German Italian
Production
Producer	Jan Chapman
Running time	75 minutes
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	1985 (1985)

It was the first script written by Louis Nowra, who was inspired by a book he read about displaced people in Australia after World War Two. He wrote it in three days and sent it to the ABC who agreed to make it.^[3]

The movie was well received and Nowra went on to write a number of works for the ABC.

Cast

• John Wood as Dr Thomas
• Dagmar Bláhová as Anna
• Steven Vidler as Alexander
• Annie Byron as Nurse Evans
• Urszula Golka as Teresa
• Joseph Spano as Frederico
• Eva Sitteová as Annette
• John Orcsik as Miklos